"One of my major goals is to develop a web of the small Wyoming museums and create a major museum system. There are about eight of these museums, and they are all scattered"
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The intent is pragmatic and political. A “major museum system” means shared storage standards, coordinated exhibits, unified branding, pooled grant-writing, and a stronger case for tourism dollars. It’s also about scientific leverage: fossils, archives, and specimens gain value when they can be compared, cataloged, and circulated. Eight small museums can each be a curiosity; networked, they become an institution with authority.
The subtext is a familiar rural dilemma: Wyoming has the raw material (land, deep time, dinosaurs, history), but not always the centralized cultural power that coastal cities take for granted. Bakker is proposing a workaround that respects geography while refusing to be limited by it. “They are all scattered” isn’t merely descriptive; it’s a diagnosis of why these places struggle to punch at their weight.
Context matters, too. Bakker is a dinosaur celebrity-scientist, the kind of figure who can translate specialized expertise into public fascination. He’s positioning museums not as dusty temples, but as a connected civic project: science as regional development, and culture as a logistics problem worth solving.
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"One of my major goals is to develop a web of the small Wyoming museums and create a major museum system. There are about eight of these museums, and they are all scattered." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/one-of-my-major-goals-is-to-develop-a-web-of-the-62917/. Accessed 4 Feb. 2026.
